Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!boulder!stan!dce
From: dce@Solbourne.COM (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Look!  An xargs!! (Re: recursive grep)
Message-ID: <2241@marvin.Solbourne.COM>
Date: 3 Sep 89 23:57:58 GMT
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In article <4026@buengc.BU.EDU> bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>Okay, kids.  Shell script 101 is now in session.
>
>Try this, after putting  it in a file and turning on the execute flag.
>
>    while read arrrrg
>    do
>	    $* $arrrrg
>    done

What if one of the members of $* or $arrrrg contains spaces?

If you're going to be pedantic, at least be correct ;-)

	eval ${1+"$@"} "$arrrrg"

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